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I've started the ball rolling. Hmmm... must be summer. Too bad I'll be library-less after next week. And I'll be digging into more non-fiction. :) But for now, a couple of fourth books in a couple of juvenile fantasy series:
17/50 The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
The latest Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Was the writing that bad the first three times? I cringed at some of the dialogue. No, Riordan is not one of the more polished writers: he's writing in a kid's voice and he's doing it pretty well. But people read Percy because its loads of fun, and at the fourth book, it still totally was. Hate the Greek monsters (I have my pet theory about how why they're always a number of animals slapped together), scared of the brewing romance (but thankfully that's put off until book 5), and have decided to give the benefit of the doubt that most of the battles were not resolved by deux ex machina. Gulped down in one day, just a couple of hours.
18/50 Septimus Heap: Queste by Angie Sage
I still hate how long these books are. There really is no reason for these books to go as far as 49 chapters (except the fact that 49 is significant to a book about a seventh son of a seventh son). Otherwise, I kind of miss the excitement of the first book. Overall, I like the ideas that Sage played around with (the House of Foryx where All Times Meet, the Queste) but thought that a jolt of adrenaline would've done them good. Sage paces the book like a cake walk which nearly lost me.
Next: Do I have it in me to finish Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus in finals-addled week?
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17/50 The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
The latest Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Was the writing that bad the first three times? I cringed at some of the dialogue. No, Riordan is not one of the more polished writers: he's writing in a kid's voice and he's doing it pretty well. But people read Percy because its loads of fun, and at the fourth book, it still totally was. Hate the Greek monsters (I have my pet theory about how why they're always a number of animals slapped together), scared of the brewing romance (but thankfully that's put off until book 5), and have decided to give the benefit of the doubt that most of the battles were not resolved by deux ex machina. Gulped down in one day, just a couple of hours.
18/50 Septimus Heap: Queste by Angie Sage
I still hate how long these books are. There really is no reason for these books to go as far as 49 chapters (except the fact that 49 is significant to a book about a seventh son of a seventh son). Otherwise, I kind of miss the excitement of the first book. Overall, I like the ideas that Sage played around with (the House of Foryx where All Times Meet, the Queste) but thought that a jolt of adrenaline would've done them good. Sage paces the book like a cake walk which nearly lost me.
Next: Do I have it in me to finish Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus in finals-addled week?
The Rest of the Reading List